Moore v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
47 F.3d 8 · 1995
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 5 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently February 2022 · most notably 194 W. Va. 3 - State v. Miller (1995), Faigin v. Kelly (1999)
30 federal appellate · 5 district · 4 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Carnegie v. United States · Verderber v. Cantello Plumbing Corp. · United States v. Griffin · Putnam Resources v. Pateman · Real v. Hogan
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Should an appellant spurn this duty and drape an incomplete record around the court’s neck, the court in its discretion either may scrutinize the merits of the case insofar as the record permits, or may dismiss the appeal if the absence of a full transcript thwarts intelligent review.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If [the record] proves inconclusive, it is the appellant who must bear the brunt of an insufficient record on appeal.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The failure to object to the instructions at the time, and in the manner, designated by Rule 51 is treated as a procedural default, with the result that the jury instructions, even if erroneous, become the law of that particular case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.